Stage Directions

Theater planning & design firm, TheatreDNA recently released a free theater and entertainment reference app, now available on the App Store and Google Play. The app’s purpose is to streamline communication between architects, administrators, artists, contractors, and students in the entertainment world. Here’s a video introduction to the company’s reference app: {youtube}v=mLLWMoj2bSI{/youtube}

L-Acoustics announces integration between its P1 processor, which began shipping in June 2018, and the Q-SYS Platform from QSC, allowing users to easily control and monitor P1 through Q-SYS. System designers can now architect high-performing and fully scalable AV environments using the familiar Q-SYS Designer Software and native user control interface, while offering the state-of-the-art audio experience delivered by L-Acoustics sound systems.

Interactive Technologies Inc. debuted the newest member of its CueServer product family, the Insite touchscreen, at this year’s LDI trade show. The Insite touchscreen is an entirely new user interface wall station designed and produced by Interactive for lighting control professionals who love the power and simplicity of CueServer.

Here's a video showing off the new GLP impression FR1, a compact LED moving head which offers a soft pencil beam and super fast movement and continuous pan rotation for 3D multi beam designs: {youtube}v=m7rz8ALXmkc{/youtube}

Robe presented Part Two of its Lost Worlds exhibition live show trilogy concept at LDI in Las Vegas, with another impressive booth design and a high-energy eight-minute live dance extravaganza designed to illustrate its latest technologies in the context for which they have been developed. This included the just-launched T1 Profile LED moving light.

A large number of enthusiastic visitors came to the CHAUVET Professional LDI booth to see the debut of new products added to the company’s popular Maverick, Rogue, Ovation, COLORado, and STRIKE lines. Drawing attention at the center of the company’s booth was a running water display of the new Maverick Storm 1 Wash, a high output IP65 LED fixture that’s especially well-suited for outdoor applications. Here's CHAUVET Product Manager, Ben Dickmann taking a video tour of the new Ovation, theatrical and studio products introduced at LDI 2018: {youtube}v=QA9xBBBK48k{/youtube}

The 30th edition of the LDI show proved a testament to the growing interest in the Elation product range as the company continued its trend of innovative product launches. The Artiste Series continued to make a name for itself with launch of the Artiste Monet™, a new 45,000 lumen LED profile light with its SpectraColor system that collected an LDI Product Award, honorable mention accolade. The compact, CMY color-mixing Smarty Hybrid™ with ultra-efficient 6,000-hour lamp was also recognized as unique innovation by industry peers, receiving a PLSN Gold Star Award for Best Hybrid Fixture of 2018.

Signify’s new Philips Vari-Lite VL10 BeamWash luminaire was unveiled at LDI 2018 in Las Vegas after successful tests on a variety of productions held earlier this fall. The VL10 BeamWash, with a compact, fast-moving body, is the first lighting fixture to be designed around the new high-performance Philips 25R Platinum 550W lamp. 

Elation Professional has added three new World Premiere products to an already impressive list of innovative product launches at LDI 2018. Showing October 19-21 at LDI Booth 931for the first time anywhere will be the Artiste Monet™, Proteus Profile™and Smarty MaX™, new professional market luminaires that continue Elation’s efforts to bring innovation and best-in-class ROI products to the market. 

Here's a video from PreSonus. Richard Gaspard, PreSonus product specialist, shows you how to connect a wireless router, iPad, and iPhone to a StudioLive Series III console, as well as the functionality of how to use those devices with UC Surface and QMix-UC. All of the functionality shown is also available with and Android tablet, as well.